When the iron bird flies and horses run on wheels, the Tibetan people will be scattered like ants across the face of the earth.

Conquer anger with non-anger. Conquer evil with good. Conquer stinginess with giving. Conquer deceit with truth.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves.

The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery.

The superior person is like water, bringing benefit to all without competing.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

Zen is a way of life, not a theory or a piece of knowledge to be stored away in our minds.

If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

Kindness is the solution to all of life's problems.

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The grass is greener where you water it.

The Buddha's teachings are not a religion, but a science of mind.

Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

In meditation, we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

Buddhas and ordinary beings are not two. Enlightenment and delusion are not different paths.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal and being really serious about it, wanting it to be like that forever. The gloriousness becomes tinged by craving and addiction. On the other hand, wretchedness--life's painful aspect--softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.

The nature of everything is empty and clear, and the mind is beyond both existence and nonexistence.

Every experience is an opportunity to practice awareness.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Real happiness comes from having an unshakable connection to the deep wellspring of peace and happiness that is not dependent on external conditions.

The ultimate source of happiness is not money and power, but warm-heartedness.

The snow lion stays in the mountains, and the snow lion's ways are the snow lion's ways.

The nature of all things is like a magical illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water.

The Buddha's teaching is a teaching of self-reliance, of being one's own master, one's own refuge.

Devotion is the head of meditation, as is often said. When you are inspired by some spiritual teacher, you can have a very strong connection with that person, and thereby the blessings can enter.

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

The essence of the spiritual journey is the uncovering of what is always already present.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

The practice is not about achieving special states but about seeing ordinary experience with extraordinary clarity.